Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sally Ride

It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.

Salman Rushdie

So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.

Salman Rushdie

The problem's name is God.

Salman Rushdie

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish ... to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

W. H. Auden

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

William Dampier

The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name.

William Cobbett

Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of 'speculation'; but which ought to be called Gambling.

William Cowper

Some to the fascination of a name, Surrender judgment hoodwinked.

Wayne Newton

I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the far right; but anarchism, as prefigured in early Taoist thought, and expounded by Shelley and Kropotkin, Goldman and Goodman. Anarchism's principal target is the authoritarian State (capitalist or socialist); its principle moral-practical theme is cooperation (solidarity, mutual aid). It is the most idealistic, and to me the most interesting, of all political theories.

Rock Hudson

I had to overcome the name Rock. If I'd been as hip then as I am now, I would have never consented to be named Rock.

Robertson Davies

I still have trouble identifying grammatical structures by name, though I know them as matters of usage.

Robertson Davies

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

Robert Penn Warren

I longed to know the world's name.

Robert M. Pirsig

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

Robert M. Pirsig

What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that holds us all together goes on and on.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

Robert Fisk

The word 'democracy' and the name of Assad do not blend very well in much of Syria.

Walt Frazier

The regular season is where you make your name, but the postseason is where you make your fame

Wally Schirra

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out

Walt Disney

Anything that has the Disney name to it is something we feel responsible for.

Walt Whitman

I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

Sarah Dessen

In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.

Sarah Dessen

She smiled, pulling the photo a little closer, and I wondered if I should ask her, too, the question for my project, get her definition. But as she ran a finger slowly across the faces, identifying each one, it occurred to me that maybe this was her answer. All those names, strung together like beads on a chain. Coming together, splitting apart, but still and always, a family. (page 289) ~Ruby

Rosecrans Baldwin

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

Roland Barthes

The incapacity to name is a good symptom of disturbance.

Roger Scruton

There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition.

Robin McKinley

Vampire. Dangerous. Unknowable. Seriously creepy. This one's name was Constantine. We'd met before.

Robin McKinley

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

Willard Wigan

The smaller your work, the bigger your name will become.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Treating 'water' as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.